Word: fish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much-desired consumer goods still the eternal Soviet problem, the planners have moved to sop up excess demand by allowing prices to float up anywhere from 5% to 20% in the past year for such luxury purchases as cars, carpets, and privately owned apartments, as well as for meat, fish and other desirable foods...
...regard Adam and Eve as prototypes of humanity, not real people who committed some terrible primordial sin. Genesis to the contrary, said the scholars, the flood that Noah escaped did not cover "all the high mountains under the whole heaven"; nor was Jonah actually swallowed by a "great fish...
...leaves open to question how long the "days" were and how old the earth is). He believes literally in the Adam and Eve story and the entire New Testament, including accounts like Jesus' walking on water. Because of the way Jesus referred to Jonah's sojourn in the fish, Preus insists that the Jonah tale is history...
...Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, lists between 5,000 and 10,000 as the population of wolves in Alaska. The Government and all conservationists consider the wolf extremely vulnerable to human pressures (e.g., killing for fur). I do not believe that President Ford would purposely exploit a threatened species; however, the example he has set by accepting and wearing a coat made from wolf fur is extremely harmful to the remnant of the population of wolves in Alaska. We have requested that the President make a public statement denouncing the exploitation of wildlife for the sake...
...some 100 million dogs and cats in the U.S. reproduce at the rate of 3,000 an hour, v. the 415 human babies born each 60 minutes. An estimated 60% of the 70 million American households own pets-including 350 million fish, 22 million birds and 8 million horses-and nearly 30% of these families have more than one. No less a journal than the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has urgently advocated zero population growth for pets. Otherwise, in dark moments one can envision a vast, real-life re-enactment of George Orwell's Animal Farm, with...